Indications emerged, yesterday, at the World Economic Forum Africa that the Federal Government and auditors investigating NNPC accounts will, in the next 16 weeks, make public their findings. This will put paid to the controversy surrounding the alleged missing $20 billion from the Federation Account. Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr…
A group, BAOBAB for Women’s Right, yesterday, called on the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, to apologise to parents of abducted Chibok school girls for doubting that the abduction took place.The group in a statement by its Borno State coordinator, Prof. Hauwa Biu, also called on the Federal Government to put in place adequate plans…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, yesterday, said that the military was focusing on strategies to free the girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were taken captive by the Boko Haram sect, even as it dissociated the outfit from allegation that it lacked the capacity to rescue the girls. In a statement in…
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday declared its support for the offer by the United States, Britain, France and China to help in rescuing the abducted Chibok school girls. ACF National Publicity Secretary, Mohammed Ibrahim in a statement in Kaduna, urged the presidential committee to swing into action, collaborate with Borno State government and security…
The United States navy has officially transferred the former Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin into the hands of the Nigerian Navy. The Gallatin was offered to Nigeria April 24, 2013, through the US Foreign Assistance Act, and was decommissioned from US Coast Guard service on March 31, 2014. During the ceremony, US Coast Guard Chief Acquisition…
Sixteen policemen were among the more than 300 people killed by the Boko Haram militants in Gamboru
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, called on Nigerians to unite and fight the common enemies of the nation, saying it did not include shedding of human blood. Sultan Abubakar stated this at the first Inter-Faith Health Summit, organised by the Nigerian Inter-Faith Action Association in Abuja.He said though leaders of faith…
STATESMEN, prominent leaders of the three geo-political zones of the Southern part of the country, under the aegis of Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly, SNPA, rose from a meeting yesterday, with a strong condemnation of insurgency in some parts of the country, warning that it would not be ruled by a government that would be a…
Immediate past president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, and a former chairman of the association in Anambra State, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, have both expressed sorrow over the demise of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, saying that Nigeria has lost an enviable and erudite jurist. Speaking to journalists in Awka on Monday, Akeredolu…
The Northern Region of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has alleged a conspiracy between Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, and the authorities of Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, from where Boko Haram terrorists abducted over 200 mostly Christian girls on April 14. Northern CAN in a statement issued today in Kaduna and signed…